Example sentences of "[that] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a recent book on the trial ( The World That Was Ours — The story of the Rivonia trial , by Hilda Bernstein , published by SAWriters . ) , |
| 2 | She 'd be in the bath , on the sunbed , and you know , out like on a Friday night that was her , bath , sunbed |
| 3 | Guinness ' decision to withdraw its alcohol-free bitter , Smithwick 's AFB , last February appears to endorse the persistent gloom surrounding a sector that was one described as a dynamic , vibrant and burgeoning niche . |
| 4 | The Thing made the little clicking noise that was its equivalent of clearing its throat . |
| 5 | The Open Software Foundation 's recent wrestling with its internal structure , which is said to be occasioned by its continuing financial angst , has resulted in a reorganisation that separates OSF/1 , the operating system that was its original raison d'etre , from the other technologies to which it has put its name . |
| 6 | And er for the and then at Rendall took on two new combines from Ma from the Massey Ferguson company that was them days . |
| 7 | My view was that most people would prefer a pension that was theirs by right rather than being dependent on the decisions of government . |
| 8 | Set against these developments , soccer hooliganism may be interpreted as ‘ attempts by certain sections of the class to assert some inarticulate , but keenly experienced sense of control over the game that was theirs ’ ( Taylor , 1971a:163 ) . |
| 9 | After a while it seemed to me amusing that such preparations as a wedding involve should surround the plain , pale husk that was me and that no one had commented on this incongruity . |
| 10 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 11 | If he was happy that was something , but for how long ? |
| 12 | Just possible , hut that was something else I had never seen . |
| 13 | He made a noise that was something like a laugh . |
| 14 | If she waited much longer , she would be late at the shop , and as there was a good chance Lisa would be alone that was something she did n't really want to risk . |
| 15 | Lissa made a sound that was something between a hiss and a growl . |
| 16 | As this went on , the point of view without extension that was myself and The Fat Controller accompanied the product-of-the future as it was unloaded from the truck and heaped in a stall of warped boards . |
| 17 | Powell and Pressburger made their last disillusioned statement on the post-war mood in The Small Back Room ( 1949 ) , the story of an explosives expert 's struggles against drink and pain that was their first film after the defection to Korda . |
| 18 | The survival of ancient sites depended on the whim of their owners , and often it was their own ‘ weight and worthlessness ’ that was their best protection . |
| 19 | I mean the foyer when you come in to the building when the place was refurbished that was that we got the consultant 's to look at the into the foyer and what you see as you come into the building is the recommendations of those consultants were talking about having a red foyer making it inviting and friendly that was their recommendation which was adopted . |
| 20 | If copulation had indeed been the cause of Preston 's subsequent arrival on this earth , and she was far from admitting the connection , it had more than likely occurred in the seaside boarding house that was their eventual destination . |
| 21 | The ships that had survived were divided , some to continue with the trade that was their life-blood ; the rest thinly spread through the Sudreyar , including Man , where Bishop Hrolf cultivated his souls and his fortifications with equal exuberance and had received from his smith on Holmepatrick , in his scant leisure from illegal coining , a custom-made tunic of chain-mail with the cross of Christ on every ring of it . |
| 22 | Because of all the bad press that miners got and in a sense Quix was responding from higher up probably by saying you know well take the b they took the box away in fact at the end of the miner 's strike and then when this strike came along they thought it would n't you know the the they that was their rule sort of thing . |
| 23 | It did not start the cauldron brewing but its members reacted to the simmering unrest that was their inheritance with an honest attempt to apply minds to what had always been the province of bigotry and emotion . |
| 24 | cos if you think about it , the apostle source was the Hebrew scripture'=s that was their source was n't it ? |
| 25 | From the age of seven I had always wanted to be a missionary and I well remember my mother returning from a missionary meeting in the village to hear me say that was what I hoped one day to be . |
| 26 | I 'd forgotten that was what I 'd picked a Gnat for in the first place It sounded horrible , coming from him . |
| 27 | In his romantic intransigence that was what he wanted more than anything . |
| 28 | It was all very well picking at the past like this if it helped to exorcise the demons , but he was n't sure that was what William wanted . |
| 29 | She knew more about The Hell Fire Club ; she was certain that was what her husband had been working on . |
| 30 | ‘ Not in so many words , but I 'm pretty sure that was what he was getting at . ’ |